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PLOW. 7 No. 329,454. Patented Nov. 3, 1885.

llllllllllllfmllll WITNESSES: IN VENTOR.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANKLIN B. HUNT, OF RICHMOND, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO THE RICHMOND SULKY PLOW COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

PLOW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 329,454, dated November 3, 1885.

Application filed September 2, 1884. Serial No. 142,025. (No model.)

To (LZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANKLIN B. HUNT, of Richmond, in the county of WVayne and State of Indiana, have invented a certain Improvement in Plows, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in plows from which the handles may be readily detached, so that the plow maybe used either as a walking or a sulky plow; and the improvement consists in the construction and combination of parts hereinafter set forth, and distinctly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a plow embodying my improved construction. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the plowstandard. Fig. 3 is a perspective "iew of the detachable yoke or holder for the handles. Fig. 4 is an elevation of the beam-holder. Fig.

5 shows details of the devices for adjusting the beam. Fig. 6 is a perspective of the slotted adjusting-wedge.

A designates the plow-beam, which is bolted to the standard E at H, and is clamped to the front part 'of said standard by a device I will now proceed to describe. The front part of standard E has a vertical slot, I, and in proximity to the slot corrugated surfaces K K. A clamp-plate, L, has ears Z Z extending from its back, to pass above and below the edges of the plow-beam, and is corrugated on its face, as at Z. This clamp-plate L is perforated or slotted, as shown in Fig. 5. Then clamp-plate L is placed on the plow-beam so 5 that the projections 21 embrace the beam, a

slotted wedge, M, is placed between the'back of the clamp and the side of the plow-beam. Then when the face of clamp L is brought against the corrugated surface of standard E a bolt is passed through the standard, clamp, 40 wedge, and a perforation in the beam, and the beam may thus be secured at any height with reference to the standard which is permitted by the length of slot I. By setting the wedge M in appropriate position the mold- 5 board B and share D'may be adjusted more or less to land. The standard E has a crossbar, F, which bar has side flanges, e e, and is perforated about centrally. The yoke G has a hole, 9, in its central portion which registers with the hole in the bar F. The handles C are secured to the yoke G, and said yoke may be secured to the cross-bar F by a single bolt, and readily removed when the plow is to be used as a sulky-plow.

I claim 1. In a plow, the standard having a flanged cross-bar integral therewith, in combination with the detachable yoke G and handles secured to said yoke. 6c

2. The combination, with the standard, clamping-plate, and beam, of a slotted wedge between the plate and beam, and a bolt passing through all the enumerated parts, substantially as described.

FRANKLIN B. HUNT.

Witnesses:

FRED. G. DIETRIOH, J os. A. RYAN. 

